2007 August | Here & Now

Friday, August 31, 2007

Home Loans; A Frank Conversation; U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; The Week In Sports; Frederic Franklin

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Virginia Tech Massacre Report; Avoiding Freshman Pitfalls; Pool Warning; Pakistan Power Play; Camel Deaths; Brain On Music

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Katrina Anniversary; Promise of The Web; Israel Rejects Darfur Refugees; Darfur: A Young Perspective; Guilty Pleasures

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Fires In Greece; Libby, Montana; New Orleans Latinos; Larry Craig; Author Merrill Markoe

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Gonzales Resigns; Gonzales Resignation Reaction; Home Sales and Home Depot; The US Open; Stories From The Street

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Mortgage Credit Crisis; “The Entitled”; Who Lost Iraq?; Green Dorms; Lazy Lester

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Report Expresses Doubts about Iraqi Government; Political Roundtable: War and Politics; “100 or Less”; Bill Littlefield and the Week in Sports; Mort Sahl

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

CIA Report on 9/11 Failures; Is the Nation Prepared?; Challenger Generation; Cable Epiphanies

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Can Maliki Survive?; Pastor to the Presidents; Can Chrysler be Saved?; “Foot Trolleys of Death”; The Science of Smiling

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Immigration Activist Deported; A Crash Course in Market Basics; Bad Building; Vietnam Vet Helps Hometown Soldiers; “Kira-Kira”

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Rescuers Killed in Utah Mine; Autism Study; The Home’s a Stage; Letters; Composer John Adams

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Army Suicides; The New Cold Rush; British Leaving Troubled Basra; The Week in Sports; Elvis Marathon

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Petraeus Plan for Iraq; Fuel of the Future?; Toy Risks I; Toy Risks II; Crown Prince of Woodstock; Air Guitar Championship

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Heat Wave; Get Healthy or Pay; Tracking Parolees; Architectural Dance; Musical All-Stars

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Rove Departing; Building a Better Water Jug; Pope Benedict’s Edicts; Alternative to the Campus Bookstore; Eliza Minot

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Friday, August 10, 2007

Stocks Plunge; What the Class of 2011 is Reading; Marine Cleared of Iraqi Murders; Art Science; Israel’s New Jazz Star

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Bush Press Conference; The Campaign Trail; “Why Men Are Babies”; Big Dig Manslaughter Charge; Megastar Plays Falling Star

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

New Immigration Rules; “Crucible of Terror”; Medical Ethics; The Elderly and Humor; Lone Cranberry

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Utah Mine Cave-In; Army Corps and Katrina; Sarkozy’s Vacation; Advertising and Food; Robin Cook

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Weapons Gone Missing; Imported Food Safety; Western Wildfires; Profile of a Firefighter; “Edible Estates”; “Sweet Land”

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Friday, February 3, 2012
Running legend Alberto Salazar. (Photo Alex Ashlock)

Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock recently sat down with Alberto Salazar, one of the top distance runners in American sports history.

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Friday, February 3, 2012
A portrait of Dickens at age 29, painted during his 1842 American trip by Boston artist Francis Alexander. It’s on loan to the UMass Lowell exhibit from the MFA where it hasn’t been seen in 30 years. Diana Archibald says it shows the young Dickens’ penchant for flashy dress, which inspired another part of the Lowell exhibit, “Dickens as Steampunk Muse.” (Courtesy Of Museum of Fine Arts Boston)

“People think of Dickens as that old guy with the beard that’s not relevant. And he is relevant! In fact, I think of him as sort of like Jon Stewart, he uses wit,” said Diana Archibald, a Dickens scholar. Dickens was born 200 years ago, we look back on his trip to the famous mills of Lowell, Massachusetts in 1842.

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Friday, February 3, 2012
Jasmine Zhuang, a Yale junior who says she avoided checking the "asian" box on her college application out of fear it would prevent her from getting in. (Courtesy Jasmine Zhuang)

When it comes to college applications, some Asian-Americans are purposely not checking the race box. For many, it has nothing to do with their heritage, and everything to do with the high expectations that come with it.

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